23 Warn and acquaint the people, O Servant, with the things We have sent down unto Thee, and let the fear of no one dismay Thee, and be Thou not of them that waver.  The day is approaching when God will have exalted His Cause and magnified His testimony in the eyes of all who are in the heavens and all who are on the earth.  Place, in all circumstances, Thy whole trust in Thy Lord, and fix Thy gaze upon Him, and turn away from all them that repudiate His truth.  Let God, Thy Lord, be Thy sufficing succourer and helper.  We have pledged Ourself to secure Thy triumph upon earth and to exalt Our Cause above all men, though no king be found who would turn his face towards Thee.

24 Call Thou to remembrance Thine arrival in the City, how the Ministers of the Sultan thought Thee to be unacquainted with their laws and regulations, and believed Thee to be one of the ignorant.  Say:  Yea, by My Lord!  I am ignorant of all things except what God hath, through His bountiful favour, been pleased to teach Me.  To this We assuredly testify, and unhesitatingly confess it.

25 Say:  If the laws and regulations to which ye cleave be of your own making, We will, in no wise, follow them.  Thus have I been instructed by Him Who is the All-Wise, the All-Informed.  Such hath been My way in the past, and such will it remain in the future, through the power of God and His might.  This, indeed, is the true and right way.  If they be ordained by God, bring forth, then, your proofs, if ye be of them that speak the truth.  Say:  We have written down in a Book which leaveth not unrecorded the work of any man, however insignificant, all that they have imputed to Thee, and all that they have done unto Thee.

26 Say:  It behoveth you, O Ministers of State, to keep the precepts of God, and to forsake your own laws and regulations, and to be of them who are guided aright.  Better is this for you than all ye possess, did ye but know it.  If ye transgress the commandment of God, not one jot or one tittle of all your works shall be acceptable in His sight.  Ye shall, erelong, discover the consequences of that which ye shall have done in this vain life, and shall be repaid for them.  This, verily, is the truth, the undoubted truth.

27 How great the number of those who, in bygone ages, have committed the things ye have committed, and who, though superior to you in rank, have, in the end, returned unto dust, and been consigned to their inevitable doom!  Would that ye might ponder the Cause of God in your hearts!  Ye shall follow in their wake, and shall be made to enter a habitation wherein none shall be found to befriend or help you.  Ye shall, of a truth, be asked of your doings, shall be called to account for your failure in duty with regard to the Cause of God, and for having disdainfully rejected His loved ones who, with manifest sincerity, have come unto you.

28 It is ye who have taken counsel together regarding them, ye that have preferred to follow the promptings of your own desires, and forsaken the commandment of God, the Help in Peril, the Almighty.